NOAA plans increased 2015 Arctic nautical charting operations, coordinating with U.S. Coast Guard for safe shipping route from Unimark Pass through Bering Strait As commercial shipping traffic ...

As commercial shipping traffic increases in the Arctic, NOAA is taking major steps to update nautical charts in the region. NOAA's Office of Coast Survey will use data collected by two of its own ...

Bering Sea red king crab, after past years of volatility, ... The Bristol Bay Red King Crab Savings Area, a zone established in the 1990s that stretches across 4,000 square nautical miles, ...

The council is now preparing to consider additional protections for a 4,000-square-nautical mile section of the eastern Bering Sea that has since the mid-1990s been designated as the Bristol Bay ...